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The research aims to explore your experience fathering a child with a disability. The research also aims to gain your perspective of ways that the service system or others might better support fathers and families.

Participation in this study may not immediately benefit your own personal health or well-being.

However, your participation will assist us in developing more tailored services for fathers of children with a disability or medical condition, and improved understanding for health professionals about the health and life situation of fathers, and ultimately improve services for families with a child or young person with a disability.

This research involves completing a single online questionnaire in your own time.

The questionnaire will ask you about your role as a father, your opinions about aspects of your child’s care, your physical and mental health, and wellbeing, lifestyle habits, engagement in health-promoting activities, paid work and satisfaction and involvement in local environments and facilities.

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The Turnbull Government will provide $14.8 million to fund Local Area Coordination (LAC) services and Early Childhood Early Intervention (ECEI) services for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in the Darwin, Litchfield and Palmerston government areas.

The NDIS is expected to support more than 6,500 people in the Northern Territory and about 460,000 people nationally when it is fully implemented in 2020. The Scheme is also expected to boost the Northern Territory economy by $160 million, and create up to 1,325 new jobs in disability services in the Territory.